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Amazon's Spotify-rival arrives in the UK: Music Unlimited runs through AI assistant Alexa and offers more than 40 million tracks

Daily Mail - Science & tech

New music service will be available to Prime members for ยฃ7.99 per month A newly designed app brings the service to iOS, Android, Fire and PCs Owners of Amazon's voice-controlled Echo speaker will be able to use the service using a range of voice commands New music service will be available to Prime members for ยฃ7.99 per month Owners of Amazon's voice-controlled Echo speaker will be able to use the service using a range of voice commands Amazon Music Unlimited was launched in the US last month but is now available in the UK, Germany and Austria. Your future house on Mars: First ever Martian show home... Can the OnePlus 3T compete with the iPhone 7? Company's most... Adult FriendFinder is hacked AGAIN: Cheats' dirty secrets... Move over Spotify: Google Play Music now knows what you want... Your future house on Mars: First ever Martian show home... Can the OnePlus 3T compete with the iPhone 7? Company's most... Adult FriendFinder is hacked AGAIN: Cheats' dirty secrets... Move over Spotify: Google Play Music now knows what you want... One of the main draws is set to be the integration with Amazon's voice-controlled Echo speaker SNL mocks confident Clinton supporters with Dave Chappelle Dashcam footage captures moment van swerves before crashing Havelock resident shocked as he films earthquake hitting NZ Adorable boxer dog jumps far better than the John Lewis dog Trump supporter spews ignorant racist rant at young woman Moment of impact as earthquake rattles home in Wellington Clinton makes final appearance at campaign headquarters The moment 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand Malcolm Turnbull accuses Lisa Wilkinson of'interrogating' him Chili's manager snatches veteran's free meal after complaint Amazing baby Ibex cling to wall for safety as a fox waits nearby The moment 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand Malcolm Turnbull accuses Lisa Wilkinson of'interrogating' him Trump says he will'immediately' deport two to three million... 'Don't be afraid': Trump looks to reassure divided America... 'What the f**? The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.


Adult dating site reportedly hacked for second time

FOX News

AdultFriendFinder has reportedly been hacked for the second time in 18 months, though the latest incident appears to be way more serious. Uncovered over the weekend by data leak information site LeakedSource, the October 2016 breach is thought to affect 340 million users of AdultFriendFinder, an online service that describes itself as "one of the world's largest sex hookup, dating, chat, sexy matches and adult friends sites in the world." The nabbed data, which is thought to comprise information going back to 1996 when the site launched, reportedly includes usernames, account passwords, email addresses, and the date of a user's last visit. The fact that old data has also been compromised suggests the operators of AdultFriendFounder failed to wipe the details of former users from its database when they closed their accounts. California-based AdultFriendFinder was also targeted by hackers in May last year.


Amazon Music Unlimited: Can Alexa give Amazon the edge?

ZDNet

Amazon has brought its on-demand music service to the UK, with the company hoping its machine learning-powered Alexa service will give it an edge over its more established rivals like Apple Music and Spotify. Amazon Music Unlimited is Amazon's attempt to break into the music subscription market. The company claims a catalogue of "over 40 million songs" plus thousands of hand-curated playlists. The service is priced at ยฃ7.99 a month or ยฃ79 a year for Amazon Prime customers, and ยฃ9.99 for non-members. Amazon's Alexa line of products will soon get new home automation skills thanks to the release of an API by the company. Amazon's Echo device launched in the UK in September, and is likely to be key to the success of the music service.


Samsung boosts audio, connected car businesses with $8B Harman buy

PCWorld

Samsung Electronics wants to buy its way into the connected car market, with a plan to acquire Harman for US$8 billion. It's the latest in a line of acquisitions by Samsung, as it seeks to diversify its business beyond the slowing smartphone market. Other recently announced deals include last month's buy of artificial intelligence startup Viv Labs, which has developed a virtual personal assistant Samsung hopes to put in its consumer electronics products, and the June purchase of Joyent, a supplier of cloud services for the internet of things. Samsung only set up its automotive electronics team last December, with the goal of identifying business opportunities in the sector, and where previous acquisitions have been unabashedly about enhancing or adding capabilities to existing Samsung products, the strategy with Harman seems to be more about buying a position in a new market. Harman's best-known products are probably the headphones, Bluetooth speakers and home hi-fi systems it sells under brands such as JBL, AKG and Harman Kardon, but it makes around two-thirds of its revenue from audio electronics.


The Habits Your AI Personal Assistant Will Need To Learn Before You'll Trust It

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Recently, I needed to book a lunch meeting. To help coordinate, I asked Amy to assist and cc'd her on the email. "Amy," I wrote, "please help us find a time to meet. Let's plan for sushi at Tokyo Express on Spear Street." Amy looked at my calendar, found an open time suitable for everyone invited, and booked the meeting.


Samsung seeks redemption with artificial intelligence-infused Galaxy S8 phone

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Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co. plans to equip its next Galaxy S smartphones with a Siri-like digital assistant, seeking to make a comeback after the global debacle that precipitated the death of its flawed Note 7 lineup. Samsung, which last month acquired US-based artificial intelligence software company Viv Labs Inc., said the Galaxy S8 slated for next year will come with AI-enabled features "significantly differentiated" from those of Apple Inc.'s Siri or Google, executive vice president Rhee In-jong told reporters. Those services now offer up potentially useful information from the weather to flight times based on user activity. The flagship Galaxy S line will prove crucial to salvaging Samsung's reputation in the wake of the fiasco surrounding a Note 7 device prone to bursting into flame. The recall and eventual cessation of the line is estimated to cost upwards of $6 billion and pushed profits at its mobile division to a record low in the September quarter.


Mike Gualtieri's Blog

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not one big, specific technology. Rather, it is comprised of one or more building block technologies. So, to understand AI, you have to understand each of these nine building block technologies. Now, you could argue that there are more technologies than the ones listed here, but any additional technology can fit under one of these building blocks. Knowledge engineering is a process to understand and then represent human knowledge in data structures, semantic models, and heuristics (rules).


Google Play Music will now offer tunes based on where you are and what you do

Mashable

If you don't mind Google knowing everything about your life, then there are some benefits to handing over your data to the big G. The overhauled Google Music, which will launch this week on Android, iOS and on the web, will now offer streaming mixes based on your location and activity. SEE ALSO: 7 reasons Google's Assistant stomps Siri For example, if you're heading out to the gym, Google will assume you want your workout music of preference to play. On the other hand, if you're commuting to work, the service might soothe you with tunes you like to listen to on the subway. Google's machine learning algorithms also take the weather into account, so you'll get a different set of tunes when it's raining than you would on a beautiful sunny day.


The mad sprint to banking chatbots has begun

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Apple announcements are like holidays in our office, and the new iOS release in September was no exception. Since then, AI assistant news has moved at warp speed. Every Alexa update is a new opportunity for fintech integration. Google, with its latest releases, is also now in the running. Add to this Bank of America's launch of a new AI chatbot, Erica, at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, and the bank bot race is on.


The rise of the fintech bots

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Want to know if chatbots are gaining ground on apps? A Citi analyst, for example, reported that bots are growing at a much faster pace than mobile apps did at this same stage. In the realm of personal finance, bots have the real potential to radically improve the way we manage our money, weaving financial decisions into the fabric of our daily lives and giving us immediate insight into the long-term effects of our spending, saving, and investing habits. For instance, in the near future, when you walk into Starbucks, Siri might gently suggest that instead of spending $5 on a coffee this morning, perhaps you should put those dollars toward your child's college fund, which you've been neglecting lately. To further nudge you in the right direction, she might also let you know how that $5 investment in a college fund will appreciate over time and remind you that the single coffee purchase holds no long-term value. You compromise and opt for drip coffee instead of a latte, putting the leftover $2.50 into your child's 529 plan.